Hacker News: nilsherzig

New comment by nilsherzig in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

nilsherzig — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:23:44 +0000

yes but https://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask... reads like they connected to MQTT and received data from IOT devices on there, not using BLE

New comment by nilsherzig in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

nilsherzig — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:48:21 +0000

Can someone explain the other iot devices using the same broker? I tried cross referencing the feature list, information about the user base, kickstarter origin and flutter app with some search results and I’m pretty sure that I found the company and product in question. But they don’t (publicly) produce iot devices? Sooo I’m wondering if different companies are streaming their data into a shared sink and why they would do that?

New comment by nilsherzig in "Map showing most notable people per region"

nilsherzig — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:53:30 +0000

Not mine. Was already posted on here, but the last time it got traction was a couple of years back.

Map showing most notable people per region

nilsherzig — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:53:30 +0000

Article URL: https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962774

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by nilsherzig in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

nilsherzig — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:40:16 +0000

I think the randomness is addicting. While writing a prompt often doesn't result in the perfect outcome, it very well could. Pressing the "prompt lever" (again and again), waiting for the result to show up looks a lot like gambling.

See "Variable Ratio Schedule" https://www.simplypsychology.org/schedules-of-reinforcement....

New comment by nilsherzig in "Maybe the default settings are too high"

nilsherzig — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:18:48 +0000

Alright let’s put that article into eleven labs to hear it as an ai audiobook on 2x speed while doing chores. Gotta optimize bro

New comment by nilsherzig in "Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]"

nilsherzig — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:03:07 +0000

I know nothing about photography, but i really enjoyed your work. Especially the line scan cable car and „ 1390 Market Street“. Thanks for sharing.

Ask HN: Someone impersonates my GitHub project, what to do?

nilsherzig — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:29:24 +0000

Someone created a website and social media account for a project I've built two years ago and published on GitHub.

> llocalsearch dot cloud

> x dot com/llocalsearch

> there also is a coin listed on coinbase lmao (might be unrelated)

I'm not aware of any ongoing scams, but I'm concerned about their intentions. Do you guys think I should care? Is this a "normal" thing for semi popular projects?

It's truly amazing how much generated / automated trash it out there, that even GitHub projects get fake social media accounts now.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106623

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

Show HN: Filtered GitHub Trends

nilsherzig — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:39:44 +0000

I like new RAG libraries like the next guy, but I also like finding projects, which aren't RAG libraries, so here is a simple "GitHub Trending" frontend which allows blacklisting terms. Nothing fancy, just a single HTML file (written mostly by Gemini while I'm waiting at the doctor's office).

Allows setting the time range and language and will change the URL anchor accordingly for easy sharing / bookmarking.

Happy to implement other quality of life things (sharing filter lists?), as long as the whole thing stays client side. Code is up on GitHub, but as I said, it's like 300 lines written by Gemini.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45964873

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nilsherzig in "What the hell have you built"

nilsherzig — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:45:33 +0000

But that’s half the fun (and knowledge about these systems got me my current job)

New comment by nilsherzig in "Mass Firings for Charlie Kirk Comments Appear Coordinated"

nilsherzig — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 09:29:42 +0000

Building websites which only work on the "www" subdomain should also be a crime.

New comment by nilsherzig in "Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]"

nilsherzig — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:33:10 +0000

I don’t think so, but it’s getting harder to flash custom ROMs (locked bootloaders) and there are even legislations in planning which would make it illegal (at least in the eu).

It’s already cumbersome to run your banking app (and other „required“ apps) on a custom ROM with all the attestation going on. I assume these distributions will bleed users and see a reduction in new ones due to higher entry barriers.

New comment by nilsherzig in "Git Diagramming "The Weave""

nilsherzig — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 10:07:57 +0000

https://files.nilsherzig.com/screenshots/IMG_9239.png

The difference between posting an image url without and with a random string in the url.

Blue line is successful requests (people viewing the image I posted), green are unsuccessful requests (people trying to find other files).

Second blue bump is the screenshot with a randomized „hard“ to guess url. First bump the default iOS screenshot name in the url.

New comment by nilsherzig in "Git Diagramming "The Weave""

nilsherzig — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 08:56:54 +0000

only got the working on chrome desktop https://files.nilsherzig.com/screenshots/2025-0831-105623-64...

New comment by nilsherzig in "Git Diagramming "The Weave""

nilsherzig — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 07:50:44 +0000

I should really add some enumeration protection to these image sharing urls haha

New comment by nilsherzig in "Git Diagramming "The Weave""

nilsherzig — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 07:49:02 +0000

Does not render properly on iOS mobile (iOS 26 beta) https://files.nilsherzig.com/IMG_9236.PNG

New comment by nilsherzig in "A visual introduction to big O notation"

nilsherzig — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:16:47 +0000

Loving the interactive visualizations. Reminded me of https://kelseyc18.github.io/kademlia_vis

Can someone recommend a collection of similar pages?

New comment by nilsherzig in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

nilsherzig — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:11:40 +0000

I'm certain that Google would turn their users into resurrected brain-dead meat computers if that would improve their quarterly profits

New comment by nilsherzig in "Wildthing – A model trained on role-reversed ChatGPT conversations"

nilsherzig — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 07:57:43 +0000

Feels good to be the one who rejects prompts haha

New comment by nilsherzig in "OpenAI starts adding interactive apps"

nilsherzig — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:18:46 +0000

ChatGPT got a new (I could not find anything about it online) tool under the name `ecosystem_demo.flashcards`. Might indicate future plans to include more interactive elements beside text.